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The African Banking Corporation was a British colonial bank incorporated in London in 1879, operating branches across southern Africa during the mining boom years. Its Durban branch issued notes independently, as was common practice for colonial banks of the period — each branch maintained its own liability and its notes were not automatically honored elsewhere in the network.

Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates in London, but the manuscript date completion — the "189_" format — means individual notes were dated at the branch counter, leaving the precise issue year unknown unless a specific example survives with its handwritten date intact. High-denomination colonial branch notes of this type had extremely limited circulation and most were retired or destroyed when the ABC was absorbed into Standard Bank in 1920.